Bug 179468

Summary:	Support for booklet printing
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	avg, ivo, jancs, jeppe, nbigaouette, opensuse.lietuviu.kalba, rayanAyar
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Vito De Tullio 2009-01-03 12:03:09 UTC

Version:           0.7.80 (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

kpdf let the user to add custom filters to the printing process, such as to pipe the document through psbook, psnup etc... before going to the printer.

Using these filters one can print a document in the "booklet" format (duplex printing, w/ 2 pages on each front, arranged so you can fold the pages at the middle all together)

It's planned to re-add this custom filters? If not, whould be possible to add a "print in booklet format" option?

Comment 1 Vito De Tullio 2010-04-10 13:28:06 UTC

Hi
Is there any news about booklet printing / launch custom program as print filters?
Do I still need kpdf?

Comment 2 Andriy Gapon 2010-12-20 20:27:14 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 3 opensuse.lietuviu.kalba 2012-04-16 05:24:04 UTC

bug#248673 and bug#275466 seems to be dublicate.

Comment 4 opensuse.lietuviu.kalba 2012-04-16 06:52:56 UTC

It is possible to add some filters like it was for KDE3 kdeprint?
See information in http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_make_a_booklet#Method_B:_creating_your_own_filter_for_kprinter

Now for command line I use this to make A5 book:
pdftops -level3 input.pdf - | psbook | psnup -2 -pa4 | ps2pdf - book.pdf
(For openSUSE, it requires these packages: poppler-tools psutils ghostscript-library)

Comment 5 Janis Eisaks 2012-05-23 08:45:44 UTC

Yes, i second that request - i have to look for computer having Windows to get this done.

Comment 6 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 16:18:36 UTC

Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have implemented this wish.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann

Comment 7 Andriy Gapon 2024-09-17 07:25:01 UTC

Just in case, as far as I can tell, in "KDE 5" there is still no way to request booklet printing.
At least, not in okular.

Some external tool has to be used to convert an original pdf file to a pdf file with the required page layout.